Jersey City library reception June 24 to show off renovations plans, help raise funds

The Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation will be holding a special reception, Wine, Renovations & Song, on Tuesday evening, June 24, at the Main Library to help raise funds for an ambitious $3 million plan to renovate and upgrade the main library.

The free reception will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on all four floors, with the library’s architect, Helena Ruman, on hand to explain the individual renovation projects. Major donors will be acknowledged with their names on a donation tree in the Main Library lobby.

The planned renovations to the Main Library would improve disabled accessibility and provide the museum-quality, climate-controlled stacks necessary to store and preserve the New Jersey Room's priceless historic documents and maps.

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As of today, May 20, 2014, the Jersey City Free Public Library has 241,344 valid card members.